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@RodneyMarshall1 "Gareth Neame: 'What was important was that Robert was right for the role not that he was Robert Vaughn'. Simon Crawford-Collins: 'Vaughn just had that twinkle and charm that we needed. I did worry that it might look a little too cheesy but I soon realised he was perfect.' 5/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:21:56 UTC 12.5K followers, 2303 engagements

"Pat McGoohan sharing a joke with his friend Wilf Lawson who played the villain of the piece in Not So Jolly Roger the final black-and-white Danger Man episode. Partly filmed onboard a Thames Estuary Maunsell WW2 sea fort which was being used by pirate radio station Radio 390"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-28 09:54:13 UTC 12.5K followers, 2182 engagements

"A big thank you to everyone who interacted with my thread about Hustle today. It's clear that many people have fond memories of this slick fun series"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 19:40:30 UTC 12.5K followers, 43.5K engagements

"Forgotten shows. Man in a Suitcase. Rarely seems to get a TV repeat despite Network's restoration. Texan Richard Bradford brought a method approach to the role of ex-CIA McGill now operating as a private detective & occasional bounty hunter. RB had a magnetic screen presence. 1/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 10:43:16 UTC 12.4K followers, 13.5K engagements

"Burt Kwouk - here pictured as Tao Tsing in Callan - a regular guest in 60s British ABC & ITC shows; co-lead in The Sentimental Agent; the long-suffering Cato Fong in Pink Panther films; Major Yamauchi in Tenko; Entwistle in Last of the Summer Wine. BOTD in 1930 in Warrington. 1/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-18 14:35:44 UTC 12.5K followers, 72.2K engagements

"The Hour that Never Was probably the most loved of Dad's XX Avengers episodes was completed on this day XX years ago. A short thread"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-20 13:58:44 UTC 12.5K followers, 22.4K engagements

"Tony Blake (Bill Bixby) escapologist professional stage magician & amateur sleuth. Blake was one of a merry band of TV lead characters who have served time on trumped up charges. I always felt The Magician deserved more than a single season.♠🪄"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-23 15:16:11 UTC 12.5K followers, 15.2K engagements

"Nicole: Champagne with brandy is my favourite drink. Do you like it Drake: I like it very much but separately. A PVC-clad Parisian Nicole (19-year-old Nicola Pagett) bringing with her a genuine sense of the Swinging Sixties in The Mirror's New (Danger Man)"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 17:57:34 UTC 12.5K followers, 2319 engagements

"Classic 70s Columbo. Number X. Donald Pleasence as snobbish winemaker Adrian Carsini a performance which delighted Peter Falk. An episode with a sadistic murder but lots of fun humour and warmth. I'm surprised DP wasn't brought back given the exquisite chemistry between them"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 12:21:07 UTC 12.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Gena Rowlands: Peter had this incredible range. He became the most popular detective on American television; then there was The Great Race which is just a hugely enjoyable chase film; then Wings of Desire with Wim Wenders where you see this whole new side of him. Extraordinary"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-22 23:27:12 UTC 12.5K followers, 1847 engagements

"Classic 70s Columbo. Number XX. Robert Conrad on great menacing form as carrot juice swigging vitamin-popping gym franchise conman Milo Janus. A particularly dark murder plenty of humour and a killer who gets under Columbo's skin. A clever gotcha is the icing on the cake"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 12:02:27 UTC 12.5K followers, 21.4K engagements

"One of several appearances in The Saint where he was one of Roger Moore's favourite guest actors"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-18 14:59:08 UTC 12.5K followers, 2687 engagements

"Forgotten shows. Strange Report. Anthony Quayle is ex-Scotland Yard criminologist Adam Strange who crisscrosses London in an old-fashioned taxi & solves crimes with the help of forensic scientist Hamlyn Gynt (Kaz Garas) and fashion model/artist Evelyn McClean (Anneke Wills). 1/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 09:10:33 UTC 12.4K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Despite a busy acting career Robert Vaughn found time to complete a PhD at USC which explored the effects of blacklisting on showbusiness. He published it as Only Victims a couple of years later and I'm told that it is a text still used by some university law departments today"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:59:51 UTC 12.5K followers, 55.4K engagements

"Back in the mid-60s US TV drama was beginning to swing with the spy-fi sci-fi and fantasy genres threatening to usurp the traditional Western. Creator Michael Garrison's response was to meld them in The Wild Wild West "James Bond on horseback." Wonderfully outr hybrid fun"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 13:56:44 UTC 12.5K followers, 2595 engagements

"Richard Carpenter alongside Dirk Bogarde in HMS Defiant in the days when he was an actor on stage screen and TV including opposite Tony Hancock and in guest roles in Z-Cars Dixon of Dock Green Gideon's Way and The Baron. He moved from acting to writing with Catweazle. 1/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 13:50:50 UTC 12.5K followers, 9169 engagements

"@ntfc What a magnificent collection of memories and what a fabulous servant to the club during a rollercoaster decade"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 19:10:26 UTC 12.4K followers, XXX engagements

"With the 60s over LWT goes full dystopian with a long-forgotten series The Guardians. A puppet PM who suggests "democracy is a form of group suicide" rule enforced by the paramilitary Guardians of the realm. The series was considered by the ITA unsuitable for NI transmission"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 19:41:02 UTC 12.5K followers, 12.5K engagements

"One of my father's favourite actors Patrick Troughton here in wonderfully seedy mode as a stalking neighbour in the very first Inspector Morse The Dead of Jericho. Dad worked with him in the 70s on The Sweeney & Survivors & felt that he could play almost any role. #MorseMonday"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 23:01:00 UTC 12.5K followers, 25.3K engagements

"A happy birthday to Leigh Lawson. A long eventful career on stage screen and television. Photos here: Love Among the Ruins Polanski's Tess Dad's Travelling Man and the West End/Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice. 🎂"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-21 14:45:03 UTC 12.5K followers, 1282 engagements

"Director Ben Gazzara given a challenge: filming a Columbo episode on board a real cruise ship's maiden voyage from SF to Mexico. Still you can't go far wrong with a winged collar Robert Vaughn plotting murder Pat Macnee as the captain & the elusive Mrs C hungover in her cabin"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 15:09:30 UTC 12.4K followers, 2222 engagements

"@green_pandora JT in feisty form as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 07:56:56 UTC 12.5K followers, XX engagements

"Richard Carpenter brought us folklore pagan myth & magic in a landmark family series Robin of Sherwood. 500000 per episode; a lavish production. Michael Praed played Robin of Loxley replaced by Jason Connery as Robert of Huntingdon a new incarnation of Robin Hood. Cinematic"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 12:55:38 UTC 12.5K followers, 29.9K engagements

"Very sorry to hear that actress Judy Loe has passed away. Dad worked with her regularly in the 80s on The Gentle Touch BBC drama Missing From Home & Travelling Man. She had a phenomenal range and the success of Missing From Home was largely down to her outstanding performance"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-18 11:07:59 UTC 12.5K followers, 49K engagements

"Richard Carpenter and Geoffrey Bayldon combined creative forces to bring us Catweazle a dishevelled medieval magician transported to the 20th century. Comedy slapstick and pathos followed and left us fun new words. #electrickery #tellingbone"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 13:59:30 UTC 12.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Robert Vaughn: 'The only con I've ever experienced is producers telling me somebody's going to be in a movie and when I get to the set they aren't there.'"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:38:44 UTC 12.5K followers, 3002 engagements

"Out of their comfort zone. Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone provided some unusual and challenging roles for a number of actors. No X. Robert Redford as Mr Death tasked with persuading elderly Wanda Dann (Gladys Cooper) that it is time"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-26 13:52:26 UTC 12.5K followers, 12K engagements

"Classic 70s Columbo. Number X. George Hamilton perfectly cast as unethical psychiatrist Dr Mark Collier happy to bump off his 'guinea pig'/lover. Another killer Columbo loathes. One of the best gotchas. Little surprise that Falk invited Hamilton back in the rebooted series"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 12:10:29 UTC 12.4K followers, XXX engagements

"The good guys. Private eyes the public loved: Eddie Shoestring; Frank Marker; Jim Rockford; Thomas Magnum"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 16:17:34 UTC 12.5K followers, 9648 engagements

"1969. Associated British Pictures EMI Films and Bryan Forbes showing off some of the actors who were to star in forthcoming cinematic releases including: Roger Moore in The Man Who Haunted Himself and Pamela Franklin Sandor Eles and Michele Dotrice in And Soon The Darkness"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-06-10 10:39:39 UTC 12.5K followers, 3151 engagements

"@HHarcoy Yes his victim was extremely dislikeable. As in By Dawn's Early Light and a few others"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 13:23:06 UTC 12.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Marc Warren: 'I thought I must have heard it wrong when they told me Robert Vaughn was going to be in it. I just couldn't believe it was him. I'd be working with a legend. I think it was on day two that I started badgering him for stories about Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.' 3/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:16:58 UTC 12.5K followers, 2548 engagements

"Where would the Pink Panther films be without their slapstick and deliberately politically incorrect Cato-Clouseau fights"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-18 15:01:23 UTC 12.5K followers, 2695 engagements

"Surely Peter Bowles was the ultimate British 70s TV style icon"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-23 18:25:02 UTC 12.5K followers, 11.3K engagements

"A minimalist MGM Studios set and a vast painted backdrop work their magic as filming takes place on the TZ episode The Grave starring Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-26 13:34:13 UTC 12.5K followers, 1757 engagements

"Victorian writers understood how revolutionary the railway was revealing Britain to itself for the first time reshaping the countryside with its viaducts & tunnels a miraculous metal monster of speed & steam. A new world of station clocks & timetables. No 1: RL Stevenson"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-26 11:21:28 UTC 12.5K followers, 8428 engagements

"@Watchingwheels7 I absolutely love Danger Man but I'm not a fan of the Koroshi ones.more XXX than John Drake"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-26 11:51:54 UTC 12.4K followers, XX engagements

"@voiceofKeith Show collapsed when Goldcrest Films ran into financial issues. Nothing wrong with the Connery run IMO"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-25 15:29:35 UTC 12.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Best off staying at home when the truckers from haulage firm Hawletts are out on the road. Cy Endfield directs British film noir Hell Drivers Rank Organisation's equivalent of a speeded-up Wild West film. Great fun and an impressive cast of future stars"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-28 13:16:10 UTC 12.5K followers, 1909 engagements

"Lester agrees: 'Robert Vaughn's presence just adds a level of pleasure. I mean you're getting the Man From U.N.C.L.E. C'mon. How good is that' 4/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:19:10 UTC 12.5K followers, 2355 engagements

"Classic 70s Columbo. Number X. Bochco and Spielberg combine to create TV movie magic. In the Season X opener Jack Cassidy as murder mystery 'writer' Ken Franklin sets the standard incredibly high for any Columbo guest actor. Despite a weak gotcha there is so much to admire"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 12:59:25 UTC 12.4K followers, XXX engagements

"Gareth Neame head of drama commissioning at the BBC: 'The con is both an American tradition and a cinematic tradition. But I didn't feel I'd seen it on TV and that made the idea both familiar and unusual.' 2/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:12:04 UTC 12.5K followers, 2599 engagements

"Classic 70s Columbo. Number X. Seemingly the least-loved of the Cassidy trio for me it is the best. A stunning split-screen murder sequence; a beautifully paced story; and one of the scariest guest performances from John Chandler as Eddie Kane a deeply disturbed Vietnam vet"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-24 13:05:50 UTC 12.4K followers, 1155 engagements

"John Steed relaxes on a French Riviera beach - aka a Teddington Studios set - in Dad's first ever Avengers episode The Removal Men. Steed is sent to infiltrate a murder incorporated bureau. (Mind you under the powerful studio lights Pat Macnee might have picked up a tan.)"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-18 12:29:14 UTC 12.5K followers, 2947 engagements

""Hustle is an engaging well-acted snappily directed drama.sleekly edited flatteringly lit and stylishly executed.Will you remember a single moment of it five minutes after you've watched an episode Probably not. But who cares" Nothing wrong with escapist entertainment"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:27:59 UTC 12.5K followers, 3419 engagements

"Hustle producer Simon Crawford-Collins: 'We were all big fans of things like Mission: Impossible and The Persuaders. What we enjoyed about these series was that they were sheer entertainment and I think we've tended to get away from that on television.' 1/"
@RodneyMarshall1 on X 2025-07-27 11:11:01 UTC 12.5K followers, 43.4K engagements